Socio-geographic analysis of the demographic situation in Vinnytsia Oblast: current condition and peculiarities of development

Inna M Voyna,Leonid M Kirilyuk,Lyudmila V Atama,Olga P Chyzh,Yuriy V Yatsentiuk

doi:10.15421/112156

Abstract

    The article contains analysis of the current demographic situation in Vinnytsia Oblast. We determined causes and factors influencing the development of the demographic situation in Vinnytsia Oblast. The paper reveals the specifics of development of the demographic processes in Vinnytsia Oblast according to the data of the Main Statistic Service in Vinnytsia Oblast for the period from 1959 to January 1, 2020. We determined how the totals of the urban and rural populations have changed. Based on the analysis of statistical and literature sources, we researched the specifics of natural movement of population, its sex and age structure, migration, distribution of the employed population and unemployment rate. We provide characteristics of specifics of the territorial differentiation of parameters of birth, death rates, natural increment (decline), migration, sex and age structure in Vinnytsia Oblast. We analyzed the specifics of employment of population in Vinnytsia Oblast, levels of economic activity and unemployment. We etermined modern tendencies of natural movement of the population, its impact on the prospects of further changes. We found out the problems of current demographic development in Vinnytsia Oblast based on determining modern specifics of the demographic parameters of the population in the researched area. The paper suggests ways to improve the demographic situation in Vinnytsia Oblast in the immediate future. As a result of the research, the demographic situation in Vinnytsia oblast was found to be negative. We observed a number of negative tendencies and patterns, including decrease in the rural population; decrease in the birth rate in the period from 1995 to 2020; high death rates due to diseases of blood circulation and malignant tumors; high parameters of aging of the population, especially in rural areas; decrease in the number of the employable population in the Oblast, etc.   

Highlights

The Oblast is experiencing a migration- of the Oblast with a sufficiently high level of economic caused decrease in population, though some districts development – Vinnytsia, Kalynivka, Koziatyn, Nemyriv and cities are observed to have a positive net migration and Tulchyn districts
Study of the demographic situation in Vinnytsia Oblast is especially important for rational use and recreation of the labour potential in the Oblast, regulation of migratory processes, stimulation of the birth rate and decreasing the death rate, increasing natural growth of the population and preventing depopulation, providing employment, reducing unemployment and improving the social security of the population
The overall parameters unique natural-recreation resources, the Oblast has an advanced network of negative

Summary

Introduction

The Oblast is experiencing a migration- of the Oblast with a sufficiently high level of economic caused decrease in population, though some districts development – Vinnytsia, Kalynivka, Koziatyn, Nemyriv and cities are observed to have a positive net migration and Tulchyn districts. As for the net international migration, it was positive a tendency toward decrease in the number of both men in the cities of Vinnytsia and Khmilnyk, and in districts and women (Fig. 4).

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